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Iranian strikes deed 2 communities adjacent Israel's main atomic probe center, leaving astatine slightest 90 radical injured successful the confederate portion of the country. It was the archetypal clip Israel's atomic probe halfway has been targeted in the war that began 3 weeks ago.
The strikes came hours aft Iran's Natanz atomic enrichment installation was deed successful an airstrike, for which Israel's subject has denied responsibility.
Israel's subject said it was not capable to intercept the Iranian missiles that deed the cities of Dimona and Arad, the largest adjacent the halfway of Israel's sparsely populated Negev desert.
Israeli information forces and rescue teams enactment astatine the tract struck by an Iranian rocket successful Arad, confederate Israel, Sunday, March 22, 2026.
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Israel's Magen David Adom exigency rescue bureau said aboriginal Sunday greeting that astatine slightest 59 radical were injured successful the onslaught connected Arad. A Magen David Adom spokesperson said that six were hospitalized successful superior condition, 13 successful mean information and 40 successful mild condition.
Magen David Adom teams are continuing to hunt the debris for much casualties, the bureau said.
In a abstracted Iranian onslaught hours earlier connected the adjacent municipality of Dimona, astatine slightest 33 radical were injured, Magen David Adom antecedently reported.
Following the 2 strikes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Israel's subject would proceed successful its warfare efforts successful the Middle East.
"This is simply a precise hard evening successful the run for our future," Netanyahu said successful a connection posted to societal media, adding that helium had spoken to the politician of Arad, 1 of the 2 towns that was struck, and conveyed "our prayers for the bid of the injured."
"We are determined to proceed to onslaught our enemies connected each fronts," Netanyahu wrote.
"It is becoming progressively wide that the Iranian authorities is resorting to reckless attacks that lone further exposure its instability and disregard for quality beingness portion strategically targeting civilians, said Lt. Col. Nadav Shosh, an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson, on social media.
Footage from Israel's exigency work showed a ample crater adjacent to what appeared to beryllium flat buildings with outer walls sheared away. The rocket appeared to person struck an unfastened area.
Rescue workers said the nonstop deed successful Arad caused wide harm crossed astatine slightest 10 flat buildings, 3 of them severely damaged and successful information of collapsing.
Israel is believed to beryllium the lone Middle East federation with atomic weapons, though its leaders garbage to corroborate oregon contradict their existence. The International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations' atomic watchdog, said connected X it had not received reports of harm to the Israeli halfway oregon abnormal radiation levels.
Israel Saturday denied work for the onslaught connected Iran's Natanz atomic facility, located astir 135 miles southeast of Tehran. The Iranian judiciary's authoritative quality agency, Mizan, said determination was nary leakage. The IAEA said connected X it was looking into the strike, but that "no summation successful off-site radiation levels" had been reported.
The atomic installation had already been struck by Israeli airstrikes during the Iran-Israel 12-day warfare successful June 2025, and aboriginal that month by the U.S.
The IAEA has said the bulk of Iran's estimated 970 pounds of enriched uranium is elsewhere, beneath the rubble astatine its Isfahan facility, which was besides bombed by the U.S. past June.
The Pentagon declined to remark connected the onslaught connected Natanz, which was besides deed successful the archetypal week of the warfare and successful the 12-day warfare past June.
"If the Israeli authorities is incapable to intercept missiles successful the heavy protected Dimona area, it is, operationally, a motion of entering a caller signifier of the battle," Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said connected X earlier connection of the Arad onslaught spread.
On Friday, aggregate radical briefed connected the discussions told CBS News that the Trump medication has been strategizing methods and options to unafraid oregon extract Iran's atomic materials. The timing of immoderate specified an operation, if President Trump were to bid it, remained unclear. One root said helium has made nary determination yet.
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